Translate text with Editor?

  • I’m looking for an easy way to change the language of text in the editor. All I really want to do is be able to type something into my content area, highlight it, press a button to translate it to something else (like Spanish) and the text appears. Perhaps it uses Google Translate or something.

    I’ve looked at a bunch of plugins but they’re WAY more complex than I need. All I need is something to quickly translate small areas of text. I even checked TinyMCE to see if they have this feature and they don’t. I know we can just copy and paste something in to Google Translate to get what we need, but I’m hoping to make it easier than that for the client and just have something in the editor they can use.

    (Incidentally, the clients are multilingual, but having bits and pieces automatically translated helps them speed up their translation process.)

    To clarify, I’m not looking to translate whole pages, nor am I planning to change the language of the interface. (These frequently come up when I research this topic.) I also don’t want large overbearing plugins which require multiple steps to do in-depth translations, making several versions of each page, and stuff like that.

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  • I have a bookmarklet I got from somewhere(?) that takes whatever the current selection is and opens a window to Google Translate with it. It seems that would be simple enough to put into an editor button for your clients.

    This is what is in my bookmarklet:
    javascript:var%20t=((window.getSelection&&window.getSelection())||(document.getSelection&&document.getSelection())||(document.selection&&document.selection.createRange&&document.selection.createRange().text));var%20e=(document.charset||document.characterSet);if(t!=''){location.href='https://translate.google.com/?text='+t+'&hl=en&langpair=auto|en&tbb=1&ie='+e;}else{location.href='https://translate.google.com/translate?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&hl=en&langpair=auto|en&tbb=1&ie='+e;};

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